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Here’s some weird mojo for you…

Either a real frozen Bigfoot body, or a doctored Bigfoot costume...

You no doubt have seen this all over the web and TV, but if you haven’t, there are two ex-cops (or whatever) in Georgia ( Georgia?! ) who not only have come across a group of living Bigfoot, but “found one dead.”  Not much of a co-incidence that these guys make a living giving a tour of the Georgian backwoods under the pretext of “tracking Bigfoot.”

Already there’s cries of it being a hoax, as the photo bears a striking resemblance to a $449 Hollywood movie-grade Bigfoot costume available on the web.  A costume, no doubt, that is going to sell like crazy right now.

But, I don’t want it to be a fake.  I want this to be real.  I want to believe.

I love anything to do with the Loch Ness monster, UFO’s, Bigfoot, etc.  I want them to be real, so much so I’m willing to look at this with the eyes of a child and give them a chance to prove themselves.

Supposedly on Friday they’re holding a press conference in California where they will turn over evidence to scientists, etc., and until then the body is in an undisclosed location “under armed guard.”

What I’m afraid is going to happen, is they’re going to look all shocked and saddened at the news conference, and say someone “stole” the body and all their evidence.  That will cause a major hoopla and they’ll be called liers, but nevertheless True Believers — people who want it to be true even more than I do — will no doubt go flocking to these two guys to take their “bigfoot tracking” tour in Georgia.

I mean, the whole thing sounds like a circus sideshow act already.  Here you have a group of what I would call (for the lack of a better term) redneck pseudo-scientists talking about DNA testing, yet are treating the find more like a … well, like they did to the giant ape in the story of King Kong.  If this thing is real, it’s not being treated as a scientific discovery, it’s being exploited as a big media show.

And I have another naive “I want it to be true” type question:  If it turns out the thing was shot, which is likely, and it’s determined that the creature is actually more human than animal, will there be a murder trial?

A moot point, I know.  It’s going to turn out to be a hoax.  We humans are a sucker for a mystery, and Bigfoot is one of the biggest, and we’re being suckered right into this, even when we say we don’t believe a word of it … we’re still staring at it, hoping it’s real.  And it can’t be, because that would be simply too good to be true.

UPDATE: The press conference was a whole lot of nothing.  Looking back at this, I’m almost embarrassed I even wrote about it.  Still, so did everyone else.  I guess that proves the point that we all want to see something magical.

FINAL UPDATE: This was a hoax after all.  The jackasses filled a bigfoot costume full of roadkill guts.  I feel stupid for even giving this a glimmer of credence.

If you are curious about where a famous person is buried, or which famous people are buried in your local cemetery, there’s an online place called “Find A Grave” where you can find out: www.findagrave.com

You can search by person, by location, and by claim to fame. There are numerous other options, including the ability to search for your own ancestors, making this a virtual Google of the dead.

Best of all, it’s free.

If you spend too much time there, though, it starts to get creepy. Maybe that’s just me.

I came across this interesting article about how birds in the wild are now imitating mobile phone ring tones. “The birds have an uncanny ability to mimic these ring tones,” states Ornithologist Richard Schneider. “This has picked up in tandem with the boom in mobile phone ownership.”

I can just see it. A future where birds are flying from tree to tree, pooping on your car and saying, “Can you hear me now?”

Ironic to write an article about alternative energy and making myself sound like a potty-mouth, but it’s the truth: Scientists have discovered ways to turn human urine, cow feces, and toxic waste into energy.

I discovered this little factoid while surfing through a series of fascinating articles on LifeScience.com. It turns out it’s possible to make a battery that, as far as tests have shown, will continue to produce a set amount of energy as long as you keep dropping in bits of cow poop. They originally created this cow battery from the microbe-rich rumen fluid from a cow’s stomach, but later on found that the stuff in plain old cow patties does the trick as well.

The toxic waste battery is powered by an organism that does double duty, eating the noxious industrial leftovers and, in the process, turning it into electricity. Now, that’s what I call a win-win situation: clean the environment and produce cheap, clean power. Not only that, it can do it under harsh conditions, including extreme heat and in the presence of radiation.

The pee battery, though, gets my vote for being the most practical. Imagine being in the middle of a blackout, with no batteries in the house, and your one flashlight starts going dead. What do you do? Open the cap on the bottom and pee into it. Instantly the bulb burns bright again, and hopefully you’ll be able to wash your hands in the light it provides.

One of the fun things about Google Ads is you never know what strange thing is going to pop up. For example: Take a Whiff. A pill to make your poop smell fresh and clean.

No, it’s not a joke.

This is an actual Google AdSense ad I plucked right off of Gmail today:

CIA Clandestine Careers
Want to Work with Special Forces? The CIA is Hiring. Apply Online Now.
www.CIA.gov

The CIA is getting desperate for spooks? So much so they’re advertising?

That’s just weird!

This is a special announcement to all those readers out there who may be wearing aluminum foil deflector beanies to protect themselves from radio-induced mind control. A new study finds that not only does an aluminum foil beanie completely fail to block insidious radio waves, it amplifies them. Their conclusion: those paranoid types using aluminum foil beanies for protection may in fact have been duped by the government to use the beanies so as to enhance the mind control effects.

You don’t think so? Are you sure that’s what you really think, or is that what they are making you think?

This can be fun, silly, or a bit on the creepy side: Google Talk
- not to be confused with the Google Talk instant messenger from Google.

It’s a website created by Douwe Osinga, one of Google’s employees who works in Zurich. How it works is, you type in the first part of a sentence, and using Google mojo it slowly, word by word, finishes your sentence for you.

What you end up with can be either nonsense, or … something else. It’s like the Internet itself starts trying to talk to you.

Here’s an example. I typed in “Groovy Mojo is” and it continued: Groovy Mojo is copyrighted and may not be used as a weapon of war.

Took the words right out of my mouth!

Note: Google Talk is rather slow, so you must be patient.